Apple releases iOS 4.3.3, addresses location tracking bug

Apple has released iOS version 4.3.3 for the iPhone 4 (GSM), iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad and iPod touch (third and fourth generation), just as we reported. The only changes noted by Apple with this release pertain to the location tracking bug discovered recently. Apple states that this release “contains changes to the iOS crowd-sourced location database cache.” More specifically, the update “reduces the size of the cache,” “no longer backs the cache up to iTunes,” and “deletes the cache entirely when Location Services is turned off.” An update carrying similar changes — iOS 4.2.8 — is available for the Verizon Wireless iPhone 4 as well.

maybe supported in ports but not by Team Douche. I know they are working on one, but i’ve not seen any nightlies or any RC’s yet.

Albert8112

Hahahaha mad funny made my day :)

Anonymous

LMAO best comment of the day!

Anonymous

If you’ve got an iPhone 3G that you upgraded to iOS4+, you’re out of luck, though.

Anonymous

The OS probably runs too slow for Apple to track you, though.

http://twitter.com/Alan_Vazquez Alan Vazquez

Where are mah battery & iPod improvements? lol. Apple probably didn’t include them in the changelog, but I’m sure they are there. Your build was 8J2 as well.

Jay for Hay

what makes me laugh here is that just last week Steve Jobs tells everyone in a press release that Apple DOES NOT track people through its phone, and that Android does.

Now, to contradict what he says, apple releases an update that gets rid of the location tracking lol.

Apple and Jobs are a complete joke. Such a sneaky POS company.

Anonymous

Did you actually read Apple’s press release on this?

Rob

Wow. Looks like you just passed on some knowledge you learned from bgr comments and didnt bother to verify anything.

1T2dirtnap

I laugh at people who don’t know anything.

Anonymous

I’d giggle myself to death if I did that…. especially reading BGR.

Anonymous

Wow, the ignorance is mind-boggling.

Anonymous

Typical idiot … nothing new to see here people.

John

:yawn:

Anonymous

But I want to be tracked and stalked. So I shouldnt update?

1T2dirtnap

Don’t matter. No one would know who you are anyway, much less have access to the file. Won’t make much sense to anyone but Apple. The update just shortens to amount of information stored and encrypts the file which stores no personal information.

Fashosbest

Good! Now people can stfu and move on. Exaggerated problem indeed.

http://twitter.com/neajon Jon Templeton

Define: Bug – “An error in a computer program or system”. Why is this being labeled as a ‘Bug’? Apple knew exactly what they were doing and the service was functioning exactly the way it was designed to. Apple got called out on it and decided to change it. It wasn’t an error in the way it worked.

Anonymous

err no. They didn’t want a year (or longer) of information… provided no value for the immediate crowdsourcing. A week was fine. but forever… not good. Also being backed up was a non-requirement. sending anonymous crowdsourced recent tower data back to apple (and back to the next person in your general locale)… if truly anonymous, was the feature.

and I call them ‘defects:’ not bugs.

It wasn’t an error because Apple’s expectations were being met… but the process left residue on the phone and the sync device, which was the defect, and left residue if location tracking services were turned off, which was something that apple tells you to do if you don’t want ‘applicatons’ to be able track you.

To me this is like turning back debugging logs from -9 to -1, to avoid filling up a disk.

T

No More Icrap

But Steve said Apple did not track location. Follow on sheep.

Anonymous

Did you read the press release? Or understand that Apple does receive location data (opt-in), but it’s anonymous for crowd-sourcing? And that the “bug” was that the local cache failed to trim?

Rob

I love how android people will call iPhone fans sheep out if one side if their mouth, and then gloat about their phones being more popular out of the other.

TOMMMMMM

it’s probably a KANG’ed version

Anonymous

Another UPDATE ???

Isn’t this like the 20th update this year???

Can’t they make an OS that’s not iRiddled with ‘bugs’???????

Joel

At least every iPhone gets the update can google please make a update that isn’t riddled with fragmentation

Anonymous

True: every iPhone gets the update.

True: not every iPhone can handle the update; try running iOS 4.2 on an iPhone 3G!!

Go fragment over that!

Anonymous

The iPhone 3G was released nearly three years ago. I would hardly call that fragmentation…

TUPAPI

Yes, ANOTHER UPDATE!
Isn’t that just something go be mad about? Yes, in your case. Since your Droid OS (to quote Norm) doesn’t receive as many as 20 updates in a year! Lmao. You Fanboys make me laugh.

chris

most of the ‘bug’ fixes have been very minor, and most of the releases have included new functionality. this one is a rare bug fix only release.